On October 26th, 1966, the 14th General Conference of UNESCO proclaimed September 8th as International Literacy Day. Since then, this date is celebrated around the world to highlight the importance of literacy as a transforming and changing agent. Today we meet in our National Commission, to celebrate the 52 years of this important day proclaimed by UNESCO and also, to commemorate the 57th anniversary of that multilateral event of emancipating character of Cuban education, the Literacy Campaign of 1961. We were accompanied by Martha del Carmen Mesa Valenciano, First Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Mrs. Katherine Müller, Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Havana and Luisa Yara Campos, Director of the National Museum of Literacy. The students from Mártires del II Frente and Hubert de Blanck schools filled the room with energy, and the students of the Guillermo Tomás Conservatory filled it with music.